Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Bootcamp 3.2 Update "Boot Camp Services Setup failed".

I downloaded the BootCamp updater for Bootcamp 3.2 from Apple's website. When I tried to run the installer, it completes it's initialization, then fails with a simple, and annoyingly short message: "Boot Camp Services Setup failed".

I got a similar message when updating to 3.1 when it came out.

Turns out that Apple's updater doesn't deal well with extra display drivers. I use VNC for work and it installs a video driver called Mirage Driver. I had to manually remove that driver in the
device manager Display Adapters section (I get there by right clicking "my computer" -> Properties. Then go to Hardware tab and open the first tool "Device Manager".) I've read that if there is anything other than the video card driver there, BootCamp installer will choke.

Hope it helps someone out there figure things out.